american beauty |
i recently got this grateful dead album and (aside from maybe one song ("box of rain")) it sux! i shoulda stuck with my teenage instinct that they were a bunch of boring hippies who do not rock.
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Posted by on Tue, 16 Dec 2008 01:30:00 GMT |
yeah, who still ’blogs’? |
me! very occasionally, out of spite. not tonight, tho'.
Posted by on Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:30:00 GMT |
i am surprisingly excited |
...by the fact that i am now an uncle.
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 08:47:00 GMT |
i probably shoulda... |
posted a blog about how shit lou reed 'performing' '"berlin"' in its entirety (ooh! lucky us!) was, but instead i am going to say something positive. to whit:
i finally heard "drop dead" by sieg...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:22:00 GMT |
my fuckin’ valentine |
saw mbv about a week ago at the roundhouse*. the 'holocaust' section of "you made me realise" was like an avalanche fucking an earthquake.*(also saw a great production of richard III here)
Posted by on Sat, 28 Jun 2008 02:09:00 GMT |
eurythmics - "in the garden" |
i just heard this for the first time - it's so good! produced by conny plank! jaki liebezeit and holger czukay play on it! and stockhausen's son! the songs are really interesting and catchy and cool!
Posted by on Fri, 02 May 2008 06:49:00 GMT |
from "the city of dreadful night", by james thomson |
"...and breathe eternal sighs with mortal breath.."
the section (XI), from which this is taken, seems, to me, to be a pretty accurate description (almost a cosmology?) of a particular type o...
Posted by on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:10:00 GMT |
slackness |
i was gonna go to a talk by my favourite contemporary russian poet, lev rubinstein, but i went to the pub instead.
Posted by on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 09:37:00 GMT |
another list of records... |
purchased on recent trip to berlin:art ensemble of chicago - "full force" (pretty great, esp. side one)iron maiden - s/tmetallica - "master of puppets"the motels - s/thusker du - "ultracore: live at b...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 13:20:00 GMT |
two talks |
i recently attended two interesting talks. the first was a seminar on poetry in translation by the poet and cambridge don, j.h. prynne. i confess, what little i've read of his poetry i find baffling, ...
Posted by on Sat, 26 Jan 2008 05:19:00 GMT |
